SCIENCE Literacy

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MY PINTEREST SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES BOARD
K Standards
1st Grade Essential Standards
2nd Grade Essential Standards
NC ESSENTIAL STANDARDS INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT TOOLS
Essential Standards 3-5 in North Carolina
Next Generation Science Standards - science standards released
Using Literature to Teach Science Text copies ready to download. Added 3/29/13.

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100 Most Inspiring Videos VIDEOS for Science Teachers
Science News For Kids FREE VIDEOS and articles for your students to get excited about!
Thought Equity Motion VIDEOS: Deepest online footage library on Earth

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RESCu LESSONS All aligned with Essential Standards K-5!
Learn With Play Science experiments for young children
**Science for Children Journal** LESSONS NSTA e-professional development portal. Some modules are FREE!
Laura Candler Science Pages - LESSONS and websites linked to interactive games and activities, FREE!

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Animals
What a Wonderful World stunning animal scenes narrated by David Attenborough
Murmuration When tens of thousands of birds flock together in this most stunning phenomena. This video will excite students about science!
Turtle Turtle Watch Out! (240L, A.R. 2.5) The role humans play in helping the sea turtle. TumbleBook.
Pond Water Safari (video) Added 2/8/14. Teacher Channel

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Forces and Motion
Science 360 - 100s of videos to engage students in learning science concepts - like watching football to learn about force & motion
Journal article which explains forces and motion for teachers. In upper grades, the texts could be used for shred reading lessons.

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Weather
Weather Whiz Kids Weather resources: experiments, descriptions, email questions
Jill Thompson on Weather Weather projects, videos, descriptions of clouds and much, much more!

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Electricity
Wired! (820L) TumbleBook explains how electricity gets to your house. Good for read aloud or read to self. A narrator reads this book aloud.

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Human Body
Quest to Digest (A.R. 5.2; Lexile @820) TumbleBook explains how food is processed by the body.

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Games and Fun
Games! Dozens of games and interactive activities for students to do! Happy exploring:-)
21 Things That Became Obsolete Since 2000
21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020
Technologies Du Passe Watch students infer what old technologies were used for. The children speak French, but there are English subtitles.

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Science Notebooks
Science Notebooks - Website with visuals of notebooks and videos
Kindergarten Science Notebooks - another treasure trove Website
Lab Lit Bringing writing to the science lab. This is a superb article.

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HOMEWORK
Science teacher disbands homework for quests. Complete a given # of quests for a grade.
Read Works.org latest K-8 science passages aligned to Common Core and they're lexiled. Added 11/20/13

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